Windows Phone fans — hi there Steve Ballmer! Howdy Stephen Elop! — hoping to get their mitts on the freshly announced ZTE Tania should expect to shell out £250 for a SIM-free handset, when it lands in the UK next month. Mobile blog Recombu spotted listings for the ZTE Tania on online retailers Clove and …

Apple’s voice-activated, personal assistant, Siri, is a cool app to show off at parties, but is it useful enough for me to upgrade to the iPhone 4S? And how can I make sure that I don’t get socked with a surprise $1,000 bill when I return from my winter vacation in the Caribbean Islands? These are the questions Ask Maggie …

Research In Motion is prepping a slimmed-down product lineup for this year, as it puts its resources behind its next-generation BlackBerrys coming in the second half, according to an apparently leaked product lineup. Could another PlayBook be coming? RIM RIM plans to release two BlackBerry Curves in the next few months, Boy Genius Report said in a report today. In …

I’ll let you in on a little secret: I haven’t been thrilled with any iPad keyboard case solution, despite testing and reviewing about half a dozen of them. Sure, some of them are excellent products. Still, I don’t find them essential. This is why I don’t use my iPad during mission-critical trips to trade shows and live-blogged events. This is …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony Google TV hands-on 1:26 Sony’s Google TV, which crams Google goodness into your tellybox, may not be arriving in the UK until September, but you can hit play on the video above for a sneak preview. At a Sony event today we learned that Brits hoping to download Android apps to a telly will have …

Investors are certainly a fickle bunch. Research in Motion’s headquarters. RIM They’ve spent the last few months trying to dislodge co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie from their leadership roles at Research in Motion. So now that the CEOs have stepped down, what does the stock do? Drop another 2.7 percent to $16.53 in pre-market trading. The collective shrug by …

One of the quickest ways to make me nostalgic is to talk about the pre-iPhone days–the days when MP3 players still mattered. While today’s biggest forum battles all seem to revolve around Android versus iOS, there was a time when the mere mention of iPod earbuds would send us all into frothy fits of anger. Everyone, it seemed, cared deeply …

In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent. As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest …

Telstra is in the testing phase for a major firmware update for the HTC Velocity, which will upgrade the Android platform on the handset to the latest version of Android, known as Ice Cream Sandwich. (Credit: HTC) Telstra Director of Device Management Andrew Volard confirmed last night that the telco is testing the Ice Cream Sandwich update on the new …

Trade in all that tech cluttering your desk, filling your pockets, spilling out of your bag in an unseemly scramble of silicon, because Fujitsu’s new concept gives your gadgetry a group hug in the form of a four-in-one mega-laptop-tablet-camera-phone-zord. This latest Fujitsu Lifebook design slots all four devices together into one powerful planet-defending piece of mega-tech, a bit like Voltron. …

Streaming high-definition video wirelessly throughout your home will be a major benefit of Wi-Fi 802.11ac in the next few years, says NPD In-Stat. Expected to receive final approval by the IEEE toward the end of this year, 802.11ac will boast several improvements over 802.11n. The new wireless flavor will offer speeds surpassing 1 gigabit per second, almost three times that …

The mobile world is getting crazier, and that suits Gameloft just fine. The upcoming year should see an even greater diversity of mobile devices, including multiple designs, processors, and operating systems. Gameloft, with an army of developers devoted to mobile games, believes it is best suited to handle the different products, whether that means the iPhone or an Android tablet. …

It wasn’t just consumers and Wall Street that had a problem with Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie; it turns out they weren’t so popular with Research in Motion employees either. That’s according to a survey of more than 120 reviews from RIM employees taken by Glassdoor, a career-focused site that provides a glimpse at jobs and companies. According to Glassdoor, …

With the spotlight turned on education after Apple’s latest media event, iTunes U has gotten a facelift as well as some important resource pages on Apple’s Web site. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti iTunes U is a source for hundreds of thousands of lectures, videos, books, and other resources originating from many of the world’s leading educational institutions. There are thousands …

BlackBerry’s two chiefs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie — the Laurel and Hardy double-act of the mobile world — are being replaced by RIM’s chief operating officer, Thorsten Heins. Thorsten has his work cut out to turn the once mighty mobile tanker around and catch up with the likes of Android and iOS. Here’s our take on the five things …